Mark Brader:
> These questions were written to be asked in Toronto on 2014-11-03,
> and should be interpreted accordingly... For further information
> see my 2014-09-15 companion posting on "Questions from the
> Canadian Inquisition (QFTCI*)".
> * Game 7, Round 4 - Canadiana - Official Provincial Whatnots.
> Every province and territory lends its name to random objects.
> There are official provincial and territorial flowers, animals,
> rocks, trees, and for all we know, hamburgers. In this round, we'll
> name some official things and you name the province or territory.
In the original game, this was the second-easiest round of the game
and the fourth-easiest of the entire season.
> 1. Official motto: "fortis et liber" (strong and free).
> Official flower: wild rose.
> Official mineral: petrified wood.
Alberta. 4 for Marc. 3 for Pete.
> 2. Official bird: Atlantic puffin.
> Official flower: purple pitcher plant.
> Official animal: caribou.
Newfoundland. 4 for Joshua, Marc, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Dan Blum.
> 3. Official flower: Pacific dogwood.
> Official animal: spirit bear.
> Official fish: Pacific salmon.
British Columbia. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Erland, Pete,
and Dan Tilque.
> 4. Official flower: lady slipper.
> Official bird: blue jay.
> Official motto: "parva sub ingenti" (the small under the great).
Prince Edward Island. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Erland, and Dan Tilque.
3 for Pete.
> 5. Official flower: blue flag iris.
> Official bird: snowy owl.
> Official tree: yellow birch.
Quebec. 4 for Björn and Dan Tilque.
> 6. Official bird: rock ptarmigan.
> Official animal: Canadian Eskimo dog.
> Official symbol: inukshuk.
Nunavut. 4 for Erland and Pete. 2 for Dan Blum and Marc.
> 7. Official bird: common loon.
> Official tree: eastern white pine.
> Official mineral: amethyst.
Ontario. 4 for Pete. 3 for Joshua.
> 8. Official flower: western red lily.
> Official animal: white-tailed deer.
> Official mineral: potash.
Saskatchewan. 2 for Joshua and Pete.
> 9. Official flower: prairie crocus.
> Official animal: plains bison.
> Official fish: walleye.
Manitoba. 3 for Joshua. 2 for Pete.
> 10. Official flower: mountain avens.
> Official animal: Arctic grayling.
> Official mineral: diamond.
Northwest Territories. 4 for Erland and Dan Tilque. 3 for Joshua.
> Game 7, Round 6 - Geography - The Great Lakes
> Yeah, they're pretty great. And as "the witch of November comes stealin'",
> here's a round on those big, glacial holes on the Canadian Shield that
> contain nearly 1/5 of all the fresh water in the world.
> With only 5 lakes to consider, answers may repeat.
This was the hardest round in the original game.
> 1. But for the Straits of Mackinac, these two Great Lakes would
> be one big lake. Name them both.
Huron, Michigan. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Erland, Pete,
and Dan Tilque.
> 2. Off the shores of Lake Huron, in Huron County, is the largest
> salt mine in the world. Near what Ontario town is it found?
Goderich.
> 3. Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run into Lake Ontario,
> where the ball presumably remains. What was the location
> of the game? We want the specific well-known location on
> Toronto's shore.
Hanlan's Point.
> 4. Our Lake Ontario isn't the only one. There's also an Ontario
> Lacus on one of the solar system's major moons. It's not water
> but methane, ethane, and propane. Which moon is it on?
Titan. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, and Dan Tilque. 3 for Pete.
> 5. Which Great Lake sits entirely within the borders of the US?
Michigan. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Erland, Pete, and Dan Tilque.
> 6. The biggest Great Lake, Lake Superior, is also the youngest.
> Within 2,000 years, how old is it?
10,000 years (accepting 8,000-12,000). 4 for Dan Tilque.
3 for Dan Blum and Pete.
That's when the ice retreated from that bit of North America at the
end of the last ice age. The other lakes are older because they are
farther south and therefore the ice retreated sooner.
> 7. One Great Lake has suffered the most impact from
> industrialization; its drainage basin includes 17 cities
> with metropolitan areas of 50,000 or more. Which one?
Erie. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, and Marc. 2 for Pete.
It has the smallest volume of water and is also downstream from the
Detroit River and three other Great Lakes. (Lake Ontario is still
further downstream, but has more water.)
When I was in high school I entered a physics contest run by the
University of Waterloo here in Ontario, and one of the questions
related to water flowing over Niagara Falls. The question ended
with: "Assume that the effluent from Lake Erie is indeed water."
Things have improved somewhat since those days, though.
> 8. As noted by Longfellow and Lightfoot, what is the Chippewayan
> name for Lake Superior?
Gitche Gumee. 4 for Dan Blum, Joshua, Marc, Pete, and Dan Tilque.
> 9. In 1915 at the Chicago docks, what part did the steamer Eastland
> play in Great Lakes history?
The worst disaster. Specifically, it capsized and over 800 people
were killed. 4 for Joshua, Pete, and Dan Tilque.
> 10. How many crew were lost when the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald
> sink in 1975?
"The ship bell chimed till it rang 29 times, for each man on the
Edmund Fitzgerald." (Gordon Lightfoot song.) 4 for Marc.
Scores, if there are no errors:
GAME 7 ROUNDS-> 2 3 4 6 TOTALS
TOPICS-> His Ent Can Geo
Joshua Kreitzer 36 36 23 24 119
Dan Blum 36 31 13 23 103
Pete Gayde 28 23 22 24 97
Marc Dashevsky 28 20 14 24 86
Dan Tilque 32 4 20 24 80
Erland Sommarskog 36 0 16 8 60
Peter Smyth 27 28 -- -- 55
"Calvin" 27 16 -- -- 43
Björn Lundin 24 12 4 0 40
Jason Kreitzer 12 16 -- -- 28
Rob Parker 28 0 -- -- 28
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Mark Brader "They're trying to invent a new crime:
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